So are electrons drawn towards the EM field as the photon nears, or does the oscillation prevent any attraction from taking place, leaving the orbital path responsible for bringing the electrons into the field? I know you said above that the atom is siting within the EM field, but there must be...
Khashishi - thanks for the video.
I've been chewing on all of the answers I have gotten here on the forum and it has caused me to rethink so much of what I thought I understood.
I had assumed that photons had to collide with an electron for it to be absorbed, which further had me believing...
tech99 - sorry about that, I guess it's going to take me a little bit of time to undo my incorrect concepts/thinking of particles flying around colliding with one another. I tend to picture things like a billiard game with the balls being particles hitting anything in there path.
Instead of a human eye, when a photon hits a CCD, does it's kinetic energy get converted into an EMF by colliding with an electron and setting it into motion?
Unbelievable! You know I had questioned the math right off the bat knowing π is roughly 3.14 not 4, but with my lack of knowledge on the subject, the last thing I wanted to do was to start placing questions on top of questions contradicting others when my own understanding is extremely limited...
Yikes, the more questions I ask, the more I realize how misinformed I really am. I know that this is largely due to my lack of knowledge, but I'm starting to wonder if some of the information I am reading might not be all that accurate. And well there is also the very strong possibility that I'm...
Thanks to all who have responded to my question, it's much appreciated. As I thought, my understanding of physics is very rudimentary and well wrong. Makes me wish I'd taken more physics related courses. I'm quite interested in reading the Fields and Particles link provided above as I am very...
Oh man, now I'm really confused. So an electron returns to a lower energy level emiting a photon. It travels through space in some mass-less form radiating outwards from an atom. As it heads away, does it travel in a straight line until it encounters an object?
If a photon were in a form of a 'Ray' the angle of incidence seems rather straightforward, however once I start thinking about it as a wave then I'm not so sure anymore?
Well a photon 'comes' in the form of a wave, so depending on where it might be within it's phase or cycle, would the angle of incidence need to be combined with the directional angle of it's origin to know if it will be detected?
Hello, I have always been curious about physics and decided to try this forum. However I am a bit concerned due to my lack of knowledge on the subject, so I’m hoping my questions won’t be unacceptable for the forum.
I have always wondered about photons and how they interact with the world. If I...